It’s that time of year again! Ireland is getting ready to choose their representative for the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, coming to us live from Malmö, Sweden in May! Six acts are competing for that ticket to Sweden, all hoping to be Ireland’s next Eurovision contestant. They are: […]
#CHRISTMAS2023: Eurovision Ireland Advent Calendar Day 5 Christmas is a-coming, so we at Eurovision Ireland want to share some notable performances by Eurovision acts of festive songs. Some are standards, and some may be new to you. Today’s song is… Author: John Stanton Source: Eurovision Ireland
This year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest is coming to us live from beautiful coastal Nice in France! As well as having a fresh batch of songs to enjoy, we all know one of the best things about attending the pint-sized version of Europe’s favourite music competition (or indeed, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Loreen from Sweden is 40 today Hang onto your hats, your gloves, your scarves. It’s Sweden. And it’s someone who may have taken part in our favourite TV show on more than one occasion. Every year, another website has a poll to pick the favourite songs ever. […]
#BIRTHDAY: Julio Iglesias from Spain is 80 today Eurovision can throw up those acts that like to play down the fact they once represented their country. Their publicity material omits that three minutes of their life when they performed before several hundred million people. We wonder why, since […]
#BIRTHDAY: Lindsay Dracass from the UK is 39 today Do you have a preferred size of venue? Do you wish our favourite TV show – and it is a TV show after all – was in a small TV studio with people in their finery? Or do you […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ronela Hajati from Albania is 34 today Those fan favourites, eh? The ones that certain quarters of fandom rave about. Absolutely rave about. Then when said fan favourite doesn’t qualify they all threaten to give up following Eurovision in favour of bouldering. Well, maybe not. In other […]
#BIRTHDAY: Diodato from Italy is 42 today As we know, there have been 67 contests. But if you count from 1956, you know that doesn’t quite add up. That’s because we all know what happened in 2020. No contest, but there was still a crop of songs. Many […]
The Eurovision Song Contest first took place in 1956 to bring Europe together. These days we are once more surrounded by troubled waters, diseases, floods and wildfires. But once again there must be hope and people can come together to help one another. Our thoughts and prayers go […]
#BIRTHDAY: Nadine Beiler from Austria is 33 today Some countries have had a patchy relationship with our favourite TV show. Take Italy for example. They took over a decade out, and eventually won when they chose to. Then there are our friends in Austria. It’s been a bit […]